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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by metalliqaz on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:15AM (#22257209)
if you weren't well paid, you could be one of the various state/federal welfare programs such as Medicaid and your bills would be much, much lower
Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by heavyset_go on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:55AM (#22257706)
Depends on where they live[1], there are several states that didn't expand Medicaid under the ACA. They'd also have to make under 100-138% of the federal poverty level, which is ~$12,490-17,236.20 for individuals and ~$16,910-23,335.80 for couples.

[1] https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-med...

Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by learc83 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:40AM (#22257488)
In most states to qualify for that you have to be very poorly paid. And in many states, like Georgia for instance, Medicaid covers needy children, pregnant women, parents/caretakers, elderly, disabled and blind residents and people in need of nursing home care.

Good luck if you fall outside of that list.

Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by metalliqaz on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:59AM (#22257752)
Indeed. Don't live in Georgia.
Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by learc83 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:05PM (#22257814)
Unfortunately the people who are most impacted by this are the people who are least able to afford the move to another state. Especially when nearly every state in the south decided not to expand medicaid.